Though it may look like something out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon, the punt gun was a real weapon used to hunt ducks in 19th-century America. The length of a car, the punt gun could fire up to a pound of ...

When the German Army reached the outskirts of Paris in March of 1918, they unraveled the biggest long-range siege gun ever produced. It was called the Paris Gun, weighed about 256 tons ...